Playing new piece “FLOD” at The Black Diamond on the 17th of September. Sanne Krogh Groth is doing a research project on composers who also perform their own music. She invited Louise Alenius, Juliana Hodkinson and me to write and perform a new piece each for her project.

Later this month I perform “FLOD” at Nordic Music Days in Reykjavik. More on this later.

Just back from playing a few shows in New York. Played a string of nice and very different venues and met some friendly and inspiring people during my stay. Thank you. I'll be back. The tour was booked by clang. Label boss Lars From Mars played, too.

I were invited by Dafna Naphtali (Music Technology, Steinhardt, New York University), to do an artist talk and compose a new piece for her laptop orchestra. The orchestra consists of 10-12 students from Dafna's Electronic Music Performance class. I liked the idea of composing for this specific constellation, beacuse I usually don't use a laptop for playing live. I composed a piece called "Listen Carefully" for a minimum of 8 players with latops, sitting in a circle, backs turned towards each other, in a room without light. As the title suggests the piece is about listening.

Today saw the launch of LYT TIL KBH (LISTEN TO CPH). A collaboration between architect Jakob Oredsson and myself. The project has been in the making for a little over a year.

LYT TIL KBH is an art project which focuses on listening to the sounds of the city.

The project is made up of a series of performative actions which encourages people to listen to the sounds of Copenhagen. LYT TIL KBH is activated the moment that a participant is acting out the provided instructions, at an individually chosen time and place. The actions are constructed in a way that the participants reach a heightened auditory state and thereby experience the sounds of the city in a more focused way.

The actions are developed in a continuous process and are presented on different platforms in an undefined period of time. The project has no set end date, it exists through participants actively performing the actions. It avoids the boundaries between the different environments of the city and everyone has the opportunity to participate in the activation of the project. When you listen – the project exists.

The project is based on the idea of a site-specific installatory work that is not about adding sound to a specific environment. Instead LYT TIL KBH, through analog means, isolates and and focuses on existing sounds in the environments of the city, with the aim to raise awareness of the auditory traces of the city and our relationship to the sounds that surround us.

You can find out more about the project at www.lyttilkbh.dk, where it's also possible to listen to sounds from Copenhagen recorded with binaural recording equipment.

“Phoenix” is an interactive performance/soundwalk. I've been helping out Icelandic composer and sound artist Thoranna Bjornsdottir finish the project.

Phoenix is experienced one person at a time, wearing headphones and guided around Aarhus wooden boat harbor by a GPS controlled soundscape and voiceover directions. You travel through a number of stations or installations, each created by one of the international artists involved in the performance. Concept by the team and artistic director and performer Mette Aakjær and director Sarah John.

You can experience Phoenix every day except Mondays until the 22nd of June.

Today my new interactive sound installation L U F T R U M opens. The work is built for RumOs, a newly established office space for entrepreneurs and small businesses in Copenhagen.

The vernissage today is your possibility to experience the installation. Because RumOs is an office and not a public space, L U F T R U M isn't otherwise open for visitors.

L U F T R U M is 20 cassette decks playing 20 tape loops through 41 speakers. The speakers are mounted on a steel structure on the wall. Each tape loop is approximately 6 seconds long. On the loops are exhalations recorded by people at RumOs. They are invited to record new exhalations on top of the old ones as they see fit. The cassette decks can be turned on and off, the individual volume levels can be adjusted and the whole installation can be turned on or off by a master switch on the wall. Because of the quirks and small defects of each cassette deck the loops sound more or less distorted and warped. The loops never play in sync due to the unstable playing speeds of the decks and therefore L U F T R U M never sounds the same twice. L U F T R U M is an organically evolving representation of the people working at RumOs.

Tonight Hotel Pro Forma's new production “Laughter in the Dark” premieres at Republique in Copenhagen. I've created the sound design and worked closely with Nils Frahm who has composed the music.

The play is an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel from 1936 about Albinus, a middle-aged man, who falls in love with a very young woman and leaves his wife and daughter to engage in a destructive and parasitic relationship during which Albinus loses his sight in a car crash. The plot involves another man who is the young woman's real love interest. Nabokov later revisited this theme in his most famous novel “Lolita”.

One of the interesting and challenging aspects for me is working with a combination of live binaural sound in headphones and sound via speakers. During the first section of the play the audience is wearing headphones and the stage and audience is covered in complete darkness. In the second section it is ordinary theatre light and sound via speakers, the audience is not wearing headphones. In the third section the audience is told to put on headphones again but this time the stage is lit. The fourth and final section is a concert by Nils Frahm playing on stage in the scenography. Frahm is also playing music during the first three sections of the play, providing a live soundtrack. I did the sound design and cue and mix the performances including live binaural sound mixing.

Tomorrow I'll be showing my film “1 + 1 = 30 [30 SECONDS] – A Film About An Experiment” as part of a large event at Godsbanen, Aarhus Denmark. Find out more about that event here: Godsbanen Insightout (only in Danish). I'll be in the room called “Remisen”.

In addition to showing the film I'll also carry out a number of 30 second impro-sessions with invited guests. Approximately 12. They follow the same pattern as the ones shown in the film, and are going to be edited into the film for the next version. I'll also talk a bit about the experiment I've been carrying out since 2010, which involves ideas about collaboration, improvisation and what impact those situations have on our perception of time.

Today clang release my new EP “Apollo”. This is my first release on www.clang.cl. Needless to say I'm really happy about that.

The music took a lot of hard work and cost me more than a few sleepless nights. I came close to giving up. But as it often happens, when all hope is lost, something appears out of the blue, the smallest thing, which changes your perspective and points you in the right direction. This time it was a good friend and the wings of a butterfly. Thank you. After that spark of inspiration everything fell into place during a few days of frenzied work.

Thank you to Stacy DeVille for yet another fine piece of art for cover and booklet: Cover / Booklet

Apollo is for sale at iTunes (Apollo at i Tunes), and a number of other online music retailers. I don't have the complete list right now, but I'll post more links to buying options, as soon as I know about them.

From the press release:

“Silence is not only golden, but non-existent. This is my frustration. Seeking release I tried to silence myself in more ways than one. During my voluntary seclusion from the world I had a visitation. A winged oracle. Apollo, or as it is known in Latin, Parnassius Apollo A butterfly. The mountain towering above Delphi gave its name to the scaly-winged insect. Pythia, the priestesses at the temple, inhaling the sweet vapors, hallucinogenic gasses rising from the depths of the earth, foretelling the fate of the people who came to seek guidance. Glossolalia, obscure utterances delivered in an intoxicated frenzy. I close the door behind me, but the ghost walks beside me. Apollo is music made with delicate sounds. Rubbing of wine glasses, wind blowing in an old chimney, the flutter of the wings of a butterfly. An ancient song of death and lost love. Despite my best intentions, this is not silence”.

Remember to visit www.clang.cl and check out the other artists they represent.

Last week my second piece for The Black Diamond played for the first time.

The piece is called “Surstof (Respiration IV)” and is 3.58 minutes long. It is part of my exploration of breathing as symbol and function. The sound of air being drawn in and blown out are in some ways even more fragile and intimately personal than the singing voice. Like an intangible fingerprint. But more than anything “Surstof” represents a snapshot of my emotional state at the moment.

“Surstof (Respiration IV)” can be heard Monday to Saturday at 1 pm on these dates. Remember:

I, and five other composers, have provided new music for The Black Diamond in Copenhagen. The works were comissioned by The Danish Composers' Society on the occasion of its 100th birthday in 2013. The Black Diamond is part of The Royal Library in Copenhagen and houses an exhibition area and a concert hall.

My first contribution “Vandspejl” can be heard Monday to Saturday at 1 pm on these dates:

January 21-26
March 4-9
April 15-20
May 27-June 1

It's a public access area so it's free. Go and have a listen, it lasts approximately 3 minutes.

The music is played in The Black Diamond atrium, also known as “Skåret”, through a 12-channel speaker system distributed across the three floors. In this way the music is “placed” around the room. I have chosen to make a piece that moves ... very ... little ...

AND! On Thursday 24th of January you're invited to vernissage. 9 pm. Free admittance.
The six pieces are played. Louder than is possible during the day. It's a library, remember? Speeches by important people and a short artist talk with Søs and I. Did I mention free drinks?
It would be so nice if you came and said hello.

But please, take the time to listen to (and watch!) the whole thing. Lots of good stuff. Zoviet France, Leafcutter John, Bob Ostertag, Stormhat, the esteemed Classwar Karaoke people: Anthony Donovan, Adrian Beentjes and Jaan Patterson… The list is too long to mention here.

“Almost nothing in this universe can be described with a completely straight line. As you move closer you'll see small deviations. It turns out the straight line is really more like a waveform, but because you saw it from far away, you perceived it as a line.

Not only sound, but many things in our world, are moving up and down in perpetual wavelike motion. At times these waves move in circles, looking almost like spirals. A spinning spiral can act as a powerful trance inducing tool, as can slow moving sound waves if the listener is prepared to let herself go.

KRiSHVE created SPiRAL with a fairly limited reserve of sound generators. The focus is on the music not the machinery. A feeling of sensing something vague and slightly foreboding, something you can't quite put your finger on. The sound has a physical quality to it as well as being a rewarding visit to the cerebral cinema. Two tracks are raw field recordings - happy accidents, almost perfectly formed from birth. One is recorded inside a cavernous steel chamber in a disused brewery, the other was captured in a dilapidated building during a violent rain storm. Always keeping the mics open and the tape running.”

Derek Holzer about the project:
“Rainforest 2012 is a contemporary re-interpretation of David Tudor’s series of compositions from the 1970′s entitled Rainforest. It uses various types of sonic transducers to play live sounds through a selection of resonant, found-metal objects in the performance space. A matrix mixer allows the sound from any of the performers to be sent to any of the objects, creating an immersive, tactile and spatial sonic experience.”

A short radio program by SNYK Radio about Rainforest 2012 and the ideas behind the project:

Playing at Fairbar in Aarhus on the last day of Aarhus Jazzfestival 2012. I'm part of an electronic afternoon/evening of music that lives, and maybe even dies, on the edge of what could be defined as jazz...
No matter, lots of great music to enjoy:

If I have the time I'll try and put together a little something that you can get for free on the night, if you ask nicely. It's a preview of my next release. So just come up and ask me, if you want a copy. It's going to be extremely limited edition and with minimal artwork.

Been pretty busy, so didn't manage to post anything about the latest Hotel Pro Forma project I were involved with before it premiered.

It is called “Shadows and Shapes” and it's a staging and reworking of Debussy's last three sonatas, interspersed with readings of Proust's “Remembrance of Things Past” by actors Ellen Hillingsø and Toke Bjarke. Shadow, light, colour and scent transform the three sonatas into an experience for all the senses. The piece played for two nights during the Athelas New Music Festival 2012 in Copenhagen. It premiered on May 19th and played again on May 24th.

For this project I worked together with Kirsten Dehlholm (Hotel Pro Forma) and Morten Svenstrup (Under Byen) on creating a dramaturgy for the three Debussy sonatas, by going through the scores and enhancing what we liked and cutting out what we didn't find interesting. A daunting process that at times felt like tightrope walking. The aim was to try and create a listening experience that would open the works up to new listeners and at the same time bring some pleasant surprises to the ears of Debussy aficionados.

I also did the sound engineering for the performances which included quite a bit of processing of the musicians' instruments, so that some of the music was transformed sonically in a fairly radical way.

From the program notes:

The music of Debussy and the words of Proust are united when Atelier Hotel Pro Forma and Kirsten Dehlholm stage a concert of light and shadow, colours, scent and textural sensibility. Everything is in motion.

“The music has started as the audience enters but stops suddenly as if it were meant to continue. The music is by Claude Debussy – the three last sonatas that Debussy composed before his death. Six musicians and six shadow musicians appear. The musicians and their instruments are duplicated on the stage. The sound moves from the stage out into the room and back again while the light changes in a floating way, making objects and shapes move like coloured shadows. The two groups of musicians are by turns clearly visible and dark silhouettes, playing their instruments by turns and imperceptibly taking over each others' musical parts.” These are the words of Kirsten Dehlholm, founder and leader of Hotel Pro Forma. Together with Atelier Hotel Pro Forma, she has created this performance.

The starting point is the music of Debussy – three intense chamber works written in the last years of his life: The violin sonata, the cello sonata and the sonata for flute, viola and harp – the only ones he completed in a proposed cycle of six sonatas. When the music stops, an actor and a boy read excerpts from Remembrance of Things Past – the great series of novels about the nature of memory by Debussy's contemporary, Marcel Proust..

Dehlholm continues: ”Everything seems to be floating and light, poetic and changeable, etheric and enigmatic. Debussy seemed enigmatic to other people. He wanted to give audiences a sensual experience – and in the delicate sensations of his music, he caught the spirit of his times. Shadows and Shapes mirrors this ambition of creating a musical and poetic prose without rhythm or rhyme, so strong and flexible that it follows the lyric movements of the soul and the wave-like leaps of the mind. Debussy and Proust meet in this spiritual space of text, sounds and colours, in the varied patterns of the performance, in an artistic interlacing of forms and figures.”

Krishve is proud to be part of the line-up for this years “Lyd+Litteratur”, a festival dedicated to sound, litterature and the things that happen when you mix the two. The festival is running from 17th to 28th of April and is spread over venues in Aarhus and Copenhagen. Check the festival website for more information: www.lydpluslitteratur.dk

Krishve is presenting the film “1 + 1 = 3 [30 sekunder]” as a video installation at Godsbanen in Aarhus. The installation is running for the whole of the festival.

The film “1 + 1 = 3 [30 sekunder]” is part of an experiment that has been in effect since 2010. In short it contains a series of improvised collaborations with several different artists. Each collaboration lasts exactly 30 seconds and is a complete one take experience. No previous planning or rehearsal. The sessions are filmed and recorded there and then, with almost no editing after the event. The project is still in progress which means that the version shown at “Lyd+Litteratur” in no way is a finished or final version. It is ever evolving.

The experiment takes its starting point from thoughts about time and perception. Forgetting time. Leaving room for the imagination. Rubbing two people against each other and creating a third energy. Unforseen gifts presented by chance. Bending time. 30 seconds of being.

“The elephants are coming to Carlsberg’s old brewhouse, where they can be tracked and felt. They went down to the floors below, to stay for awhile. Above in the Brewhouse we can feel and hear their presence via sounds from below. We sense their strength, weight, dignity, their force of nature.

The elephant is a gentle, intelligent, industrious animal that is often used as a symbol in many connections, and also by Carlsberg itself, which is manifested in their famous Elephant-gate, which is located just outside the entrance to the Brewhouse. With the installation, Atelier Hotel Pro Forma wishes to create a strong contrast to the Brewhouse’s splendid architecture by staging one of nature’s largest powerhouses: The Elephant.

Made by Elephants is part of the international meeting for the performing arts IETM, which takes place in Copenhagen from 28 - 31 March 2012.”

I have created music and sound design for a short film called “ForMMorF” by choreographer/dancer Iben Engberg and costume designer Jeppe Worning. They describe the film as a visual experiment involving a mirror. Body and costume are joined in a playful kaleidoscopic interaction with the viewer's imagination.

For the music I used various bells recorded in different acoustic environments around and outside my studio at night when the surrounding area was deserted. Additionally I recorded an assortment of textiles (ie. the stroking and crumpling of such materials), a coffee mug half filled with water and some synths and electronic boxes.

“ForMMorF” was recently screened at a sneak preview, and is to be shown again on a water screen in Århus river several times during “Århus festuge”. When I know the exact times I'll post them here.

Today The Silakka Radio Show in Helsinki, Finland, played a few tracks by Krishve. The show is hosted by Shinji Kanki, Japanese experimental music composer, artist and teacher who has been living and working in Finland for more than 20 years. He has produced some very interesting works. You really ought to check it out: www.silakka.fi

It's been a while since I posted any updates. First of all; happy new year to everyone.

I've been busy moving into a new studio near the waterfront here in Århus. Moving my gear and setting everything up in the new place has taken a long time. The area can best be described as dilapidated with lots of peculiar charm, partly because it's near the harbour. Just take a look at the pictures. The slaugtherhouse next door certainly provides a wealth of interesting smells and sounds. But I'm quite happy with the place and the ambience. It suits me fine.

I'm working on two new releases: The next instalment in the Ritual series is nearing its completion. In addition a new release on vinyl is on the drawingboard. It's also going to be part of the Ritual series.

The online presentation of the “1 + 1 = 3 [30 seconds]” project is coming together slowly. I'd like to make all the sessions available online, but I have to finish the new website first. Yes, there's that too ... the new website ... so much to do and so little time to do it in. But I'm not complaining. It's all good.

Lately I've been performing an experiment and creating a film documenting the process. The experiment is still in progress and consequently the film is constantly evolving. The edit I'm showing on Wednesday is version 5. This is the second public screening. The first one took place at Splab as part of the penultimate bang og/eller event.

Yes, I know I'm being slightly secretive but I'll explain a bit more about the experiment before the screening and soon there is going to be a section on this site dedicated to the experiment. So stay tuned …

Also on the night these lovely people are going to get up and play some music for you:

I'm pleased to announce that the second instalment in the Ritual series is completed and has been sent off to be distributed digitally. Click above image to view the cover art. It will probably take a few weeks for Ritual V-VII to filter through to iTunes et al. Of course I'll let you know when it's available.

Obviusly the tracks are a bit long, so take your time with this. Again the main theme is “being slow”. Compared to Ritual I-IV some of these tracks move further into noise terrain. They are a bit more beat oriented in places, as well. It is certainly not “play in the background at a party”-music. It's probably better suited for listening to while sitting in your favourite armchair or lying on the bed ready to go on a deep journey.

As ususal all tracks are recorded live to a 2-track digital recorder. No additional editing apart from a bit of mastering to keep the levels in check.

Gear related information for the sad trainspotters out there of which I'm one myself. Instruments and assorted noise boxes used by Krishve on Ritual V-VII:

Krishve takes part in a diffusion concert this Thursday. That is tomorrow.
What's diffusion I hear you ask? That's pre-recorded music played back using a multi speaker system, in this case 23 speakers. This idea came about as an consequence of the emergence of musique concrete, and discussions about how to present this new kind of music in a live setting. The term acousmatic sound was created. In short it refers to the experience of hearing sounds without being able to see the origininal sound sources. Read Wikipedias article about acousmatic sound.

Listen to sounds whizzing about from loudspeaker to loudspeaker:
Place: The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, in the Synphonic Hall
Time: 8 pm
Price: FREE!

Ritual V-VII: The next part in the Ritual Series is almost ready for release.

This second installment includes Ritual V, played to a live audience at The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus. The graphics are not quite finished yet, but expect Ritual V-VII to be available for download very soon. It will be available at the same online music shops as Ritual I-IV. That is iTunes, TDC Musik, shop2download (TP-Musik), all in all about 160 other online music shops internationally.

30 Seconds of Being Together (working title): A new project I'm working on at the moment.

Still a bit secret. Actually very secret! Otherwise it will not work. But I can divulge a few details... These elements are important parts of the puzzle: Strict time limits, the effect of several pairings of minds, random occurrences and one of the works of Sir Thomas Browne. Oh, what a give away! More on this later…

These are a few of the upcoming events in the world of Krishve in 2010. 2010 vs. 2001? I always preferred 2001…

The first four Ritual tracks are available via DiGiDi. That includes the iTunes Store, TDC Musik and roughly 160 other online music shops internationally. If you feel frisky, go to the music page and get your own copy of Ritual I-IV.

Caution plays at Archauz (Århus, Denmark) on June the 9th and 10th. The production is shown again at Skanderborg Kulturhus in September.

The performance is divided into two parts. Kati Linek and Krishve collaborated on composing music for the part choreographed by Louise Friis. The music was created using a minimum of audio material.

I mainly used recordings of cello, toy piano and radio static as the basic building blocks, mutating these well known sounds into something that the listener might not be able to identify, at least not all of the time. The point of this being to create a kind of ambivalence about what exactly it is that the audience is listening to. This underlines the themes of Caution. What is “real" and what is “unreal"? Who appears to be sane and who does not and why?

About the performance
"Caution is the third performance by Archauz U-Kompagniet within just 1½ year.
A performance of tense energy, the young dancers desire of movement and a lot of physical challenge. Caution is a double-bill by dancer, choreographer and artistic director, Louise Friis (DK) and dancer and choreographer Lodie Kardouss (FR)." (From Archauz' website).

The show went really well. Ritual VI turned out to be a bit more action packed than the previous parts of the series. Unfortunately I didn't get to record the show because of a slight mishap with my recorder. I might decide to create an alternative Ritual VI event, so that I can maintain the chronology for a later release of the Rituals. Some people might call that cheating, but I don't care as long as it works... ;)

Krishve is playing at the opening of FLirkus Stationarium, an intiative by Frontløberne.
The project runs until May 17th. Tomorrow is the first day of the event and it's celebrated with a one day festival of weird and wonderful music. Admission is FREE and the music starts off at 15.00 and lasts until 23.00.

Krishve takes the stage at 22.00 to perform part VI of the Ritual series.

Find the entire line-up and more about FLirkus Stationarium at Frontløbernes website.

Krishve will be playing part V (= five, right?) of the Ritual series. In other words, it's going to be a debut of the piece. What's more, the show is going to be recorded for some kind of, as yet undefined, future Ritual project.

To celebrate the fact that I have made a slice of vinyl I invite you to enjoy a cool glass of Crémant d'Alsace. Ahhh...
The bubbly is free for as long as stocks last. Show up early if you want to be sure to get some. If you are not into bubbles(?!?) you can buy cheap beer and cheap wine in the cheap bar. Cheap.

I'll be selling the single + a few goodies at a fun price so remember to bring cash.
Any remaining money can be spent in the bar. Did I mention it is cheap?

At some point during the evening I'll be playing a brandspanking new track. PORNOBÖDDEL. And it's not even Christmas yet...

Next week Krishve goes on a small tour of Canada as part of the band Problèmes de Communication. We perform a live soundtrack to the silent movie "Häxan – Witchcraft Through The Ages" (1922) by Danish director Benjamin Christensen.

Well, it was quite an interesting time in Berlin. We did the Berlin Biennial thing, as you can see on this picture of the venerable Gaeoudjiparl Van Den Dobbelsteen presenting one of the new Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra works to the astounded public. People were happy and much fun was had by all.

Click the picture to see a larger one.

More on this later, as I'll be uploading the entire Krishve Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra on this site only!
This is an exclusive and unique work – a collaboration between Krishve, Goodiepal and unnamed beings (some of them human) from around the world.
Only 1 (that is one/uno/une/eins/en) copy exists in the known Universe! I promise this is going to be interesting. Below you see Krishve at DIEM presenting the work to Goodiepal and the public, after returning from Berlin.

Click the pictures to see larger ones.

We also had time to meet up with the very nice and accomplished Lupo at Dubplates & Mastering, to oversee the mastering and cutting of a forthcoming 12" by Lights People. Check these people out.
The mix was done live on the spot by Goodiepal, a woman from the Faroe Islands (I can't remember her name) and Guido of Gamers in Exile. This was used as master.

We visited Geert-Jan Hobjin at his newly built house to have a talk about the history of Staaplaat. He showed us a lot of the extremely beautiful cover art he's produced over the years. You have probably seen some of it. He's also doing a lot of installation and sound work that's really fascinating. I looked forward to meeting him as I have a great deal of respect for his work.

Last but not least we met Timeblind to talk about his music and SuperCollider. He is a dedicated user of the software and part of the developer community.

I've got loads of audio and video from this trip but unfortunately not the time to go through it. Maybe later. Probably never.

April 16 2008DIEM, Goodiepal and Krishve at the 5th Berlin Biennial for contemporary art

On the 16th of April 2008 Goodiepal will relocate his students from the Danish Royal Academy of Music in Århus to Berlin for what appears to be the last lecture in a series of computer and electronic music composition teachings for DIEM, Dansk Institut for Elektronisk Musik. Goodiepal, who has been leading the course, recently announced that unless changes were made to the way the school organizes staff, he would have to quit his job after the summer.

This international event will also mark the premiere of a Goodiepal educational book called Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra, which allows everyone participating to become the co-composer of Goodiepal’s new magnum work Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra.

The first graphical scores are already completed and we would like to bring your attention to a script by young Danish talent Martha Hviid, who the Goodiepal is very pleased to have as a co-composer on Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra.
Take a look at Martha Hviid’s composition.

After the Biennale some DIY scripts can be purchased for reasonable prices from Smallfish of London via their website.
Just type Goodiepal in the search box at Smallfish online, located at:
http://www.smallfish.co.uk

When I get back I'll post more about this event. Among other things I'll post pictures of my composition, and maybe some audio too.

March 18 2008
Recently I mastered a 5 song CD for the band honning & mudder.
Actually it's quite good and worth checking out. In short, it's piano dressed up as guitar meets bass but falls in love with drums, while singer is busy singing. Later they have a meeting with PC to find out what's what. And I'm not saying this just because it's the troubled brainchild of a friend of mine, Mikkel Almholt. You can listen to it at honning & mudder (myspace) or you can get one from the band. I suggest getting one because that way you avoid the horrible MySpace mp3 *cough* "quality".

Febuary 25 2008
Last week I attended a ... well, I don't quite know what it was, but a woman by the name of Roberta Settels came by DIEM to talk about a record she put out in 1985 called "Isolation". Actually it's the only record she has put out. Now it has been re-released by Jonas Olesens on his BIN label.
Roberta Settels was born in New York but lives in Sweden and France. According to one source she "is a composer and industrial designer, who composes electronic music for spiritual survival. She has been working with computer generated and processed music as well as concrete music at the EMS studio in Stockholm and IRCAM in Paris. Settels has also composed for TV-film, radio and concerts." She has worked with Xenakis and Boulez at IRCAM in Paris. Well, enough with the name-dropping. The bottomline - it's a great record. If you like minimal electroacoustic music buy this record. No. Buy two.

Febuary 5 2008
I'm happy to announce that a Krishve 7 inch vinyl record is coming up in the very near future. At the moment the cover is being finalized and then it's a matter of waiting for the pressing plant to spew out some product.
More on this soon.

January 14 2008
Every time I think about this it makes me angry ... Ultralyd, my favourite program on the radio, has been killed off. To me the only truly creative, and the most inspiring, program on the airwaves. Luckily the online archive of Ultralyd is stille available. Do yourself the favour of listening to a few of these broadcasts.
Ultralyd is, sorry, was ... a program on Danish Radios P1. Ultralyd used to be called Lydmuren and before that Lydpotten. Throughout it's existence it has been characterized by a playful attitude towards creating immersing soundscapes and thought-provoking radio. The subject matter was a kaleidoscope of human reality. And now, help me build a bomb we can place under the Danish Ministry of Culture. These days it's filed under “football”.

January 4 2008
You now have the unique chance to participate in an online experience involving sound, vision & the inimatable Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen!
Don't hesitate to click the link below and remember to follow the instructions to get the most out of this:THE LINK

December 10 2007
At last! Tonight “Den 11. time” airs the Goodiepal show. Krishve is featured as one of Goodiepal's students. It's on DR2, Danish national televison, at 11 pm.
The Goodiepal part of the show is only about a quarter of an hour in the televised edition, but online you are able to see the entire 50 minute session. If you go to the site you can find out more about Goodiepal and see/listen to presentations of the students who participated in the show, including Krishve. Go to the presentations.

November 17 2007
The past week Goodiepal has been to Krabbesholm Højskole building three sound installations to be exhibited at the school. Krishve and six other students from DIEM came along to stay at the school and work on the installations.
Read a short news byte about it (in Danish): aarhus.nu and read about the history of the boxes, in which the installations are being exhibited, at the KBH Kunsthal website (also in Danish).

November 13 2007
Tomorrow night at 23.30, Krishve is a guest in “Den 11. time”. It's a talk show on Danish television. Watch as Krishve, seven other students from DIEM, and their teacher/mentor/guru Goodiepal, turn the TV-studio into a classroom. Experience firsthand the unique teaching talents of the incredible Gæoudjiparl. The host of the show, Michael Bertelsen, take on the role as student.

Additionally the students will be featured on the website of the program. When I have a link I will post it here.

October 12 2007
Tonight is "cultural night" in Århus and Copenhagen. As usual it's a mixture of consumer frenzy and cultural events of varying interest. Thankfully, some of the things going on are actually worth checking out. Talking of which, I want to promote some of my fellow students at DIEM. Karsten Pflum, Morten Riis and Jonas Olesen have accepted an invitation to play at the Danish Ministry of Culture in Copenhagen, tonight. Read more about it at the homepage of the Danish Ministry of Culture.

July 21 2007
Today the music section has been updated. A list of releases featuring Krishve is introduced. Hopefully it will grow rapidly in the future. More mp3s have been uploaded, even a few brand spanking new ones! Check out "Alarm" and "BuzzMachine". Also all the tracks from "Cochlea EP" is now available for download. Go ahead and grab a few mpfrees in the music section.

Oh, and have you heard the one about iBeat? No? Well, a priest and three nuns go into a bar ...

iBeat.org is a fairly new site specializing in providing people with free samples. The samples are licensed under the Creative Commons License. Which basically means that you can do what you want with the samples, as long as you don't make any money from it.

All you have to do is go to the site, look around a bit and then grab the stuff that you like. If you're feeling up to it you can write a nice comment in the forum. You might even go as far as to upload the billion-$ hit in the making you have created with samples from the site. You even have a chance to win a prize for your work of art!

Krishve has created some of the samples you can download at iBeat. Check out the "Weird" and "Spanky" drum samples in the singleshots section. If you like Krishve's music and want to try to make your own Krishve-style track, then go and download the samples right away. Have fun!

In the future you'll also be able to download a bunch of loops created by Krishve.

April 25 2007
And it's out! The new dark-ambient compilation "We Who With Music Beguile Your Pilgrimage To The Unknown II" featuring Krishve is out on Introvert Distortion. You can download the compilation here or by clicking the cover art below.

April 24 2007
Tomorrow (April 25) Introvert Distortion release the second installment in the series of Nordic dark-ambient compilations "We Who With Music Beguile Your Pilgrimage To The Unknown". The first one was released in collaboration with TLHOTRA. Once again I'm happy to say that Krishve is in on the action with "Scala Vestibuli", the third track off of the "Cochlea EP". More details tomorrow if the release is out.

April 17 2007
If you have the chance go and see the film Scott Walker: 30th Century Man, a documentary about – yes, you guessed it – Scott Walker. Anyone not familiar with the man and his strange and beautiful music ought to treat themselves to a fascinating look at one of the "weirdest men in pop", as one reviewer puts it. Come on, you know you want to.

April 5 2007
I have uploaded the track "Scala Media (Letter From N. Megson)" from the Cochlea EP to the music section. Go and check it out. The track is made out of paper sounds. I recorded myself stroking, caressing, crumbling and tearing three pieces of paper. Afterwards the recordings were cut up, arranged and processed. I'm quite pleased with the result myself :)

March 1 2007
Swedish netlabel FEED has released three new tracks by Krishve. The release is called Cochlea and is available from FEED for a short time only. You can download Cochlea during this period of time: March 1st -> March 8th 2007.
The download is free.

FEED is worth watching as the label has an impressive ability to serve up beautiful and weird(!) music. The idea is to put up download only releases for a short time to create a feel similar to limited edition releases.

February 28 2007
This is an interesting combination of psychoacoustics and extreme noise terror (no relation to the UK band, as far as I know): The Mosquito Kid Deterrent Device. I want one for Christmas ...

February 3 2007
The Nordic dark ambient compilation "We Who With Music Beguile Your Pilgrimage To The Unknown", has been re-released on Introvert Distortion. Krishve is joining the party with the track "Ol' Nick".

December 17 2006
Working on some tracks for a release on the swedish FEED label. One of the tracks is made out of recordings of me caressing, touching, feeling, fondling ... uuuh ... three ... pieces of ... paper ... aaaah ... That was ... mmmmmm ... nice.

October 9 2006
My track "Ol' Nick" is out on new Nordic dark ambient compilation "We who with music beguile your pilgrimage to the unknown" on netlabel "Two left hands on two right arms". It's a download only release and it's abolutely FREE! You can get your hands on the compilation by going to the website of Two left hands on two right arms.

September 7 2006
The computer game music is coming along nicely, thank you very much for asking. If possible I'll stick some of it in the music section later on. It depends on copyright/ownership/not announcing part of the product too early and all that lawyer speak.

April 10 2006
Because of glowing reviews by the nice Garageband community, Spermaceti Flop is track of the week in the experimental electronica category at Garageband. Krishve says "thank you" to all the people who took the time to listen to the track and who was kind enough to write a review.

April 3 2006
Spermaceti Flop by Krishve is track of the day in the experimental electronica category at Garageband. In addition to being track of the day, the reviewers at GarageBand have given Spermaceti Flop the following awards: Best Keyboards, Best Programming, Best Production, Best Melody and Most Rocking Track in Experimental Electronica, week of 27 March 2006.

March 28 2006
This coming Monday (April 3) Spermaceti Flop is track of the day in the experimental electronica category at GarageBand. Go there and read some very nice peoples very nice reviews of the work of your humble servant.

December 21 2005
What’s the matter with your face. Don’t look so sad.
... Well, you know ... it is happening again. I’m making great plans for tomorrow and then life gets in the way.
Ol' Nick is playing up again.
Decision of the Day: Attack is the best defense.